House System
The campus was originally designed around three communities named after the school's colors: Red, White, and Blue. Each community was divided into two houses: Red 1 and 2, White 1 and 2, Blue 1 and 2. After the school's overcrowding issues, a fourth community, the Gold Community, was added onto the east side of campus. Currently, freshman attended classes in the Gold Community, while the upperclassmen are equally dispersed across the other three communities. Due to district budget cuts, the White 2 house is currently not being used.
The idea behind the house system is to have students attend their classes within their houses, providing a smaller environment for students in a large high school. Each house is served by a counselor and an assistant principal. Each house is centered around a "flex area" shares and LGI (large group instruction), a collegiate-styled lecture hall with its adjacent house.
After AHS became the first high school in the district to use the house system on such a large scale, Humble ISD renovated it's two other high schools (Humble and Kingwood) with the house system and later opened Kingwood Park and Summer Creek high schools with the house system design.
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